Dependence of tropical-cyclone intensification on the boundary-layer representation in a numerical model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 652, 2010, Pages 1671-1685

  Smith, Roger K ^a   Thomsen, Gerald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hurricane; Typhoon; Vortex intensification

Indexed keywords

KINEMATIC STRUCTURES; MESOSCALE MODEL; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NUMERICAL MODELS; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY; TYPHOON; VORTEX INTENSIFICATION;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; HURRICANES; NUMERICAL METHODS; STORMS;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYCLOGENESIS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; HURRICANE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PREDICTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77958581813     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.687     Document Type: Article

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